No useful purpose would be served by reviewing all the testimony, inasmuch as excerpts from the testimony of one disinterested, unimpeached witness would seem to be sufficient for a determination of this motion. It is the testimony of Mrs. Catherine Estelle Hartman, who lived in the home of plaintiff from November, 1940, to April 1, 1942, and who became acquainted with Miss Mollie Bee and had occasion to talk with her quite frequently. She testified that in the fall of 1940 Miss Bee said to her that "she had made her home with Mr. Stutler for around forty years"; that "she had never paid them for the time she had been there; that he had been good to her and she intended and agreed to pay Mr. Stutler for all they had done for her by leaving what she had to the Stutler home." She further testified that, on another occasion, Miss Bee had stated that "they (the Stutler family) had been good to her all the forty years she had made her home with them, and no matter what she left them she could never repay what they had done for her, and she agreed to leave what she had to Mr. Stutler and family." Her testimony, without more (although it should be stated that there was corroboration), supports the essential elements of the plaintiff's right to recover, namely, the furnishing of room and board by plaintiff to Miss Bee and the understanding that they should be paid for. Miss Bee did not make a bequest to Mr. Stutler. She did make one to the members of his family, which lapsed. Where services are rendered under a promise that payment shall be made by bequest, and such bequest is not made, as here, the one rendering the services may maintain an action in assumpsit for their reasonable value. West v. Bauduit, 59 App.D.C. 74, 75, 33 F.2d 370.

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